Saggezza - Technology with Wisdom

Whether you need to understand consumers better by analyzing millions of retail transactions, or streamline a production operation by looking for patterns in machine data, some challenges will be the same: dealing with sheer volume of data, processing unstructured data, getting to insights quickly and displaying results in a format you can understand.

Saggezza concentrates expertise in Business Intelligence tools and data management and on emerging, fast-changing Big Data tools.

Big Data

Big Data is an emerging set of tools and techniques designed to produce business intelligence from datasets too large or too unstructured to be handled by traditional BI tools.  Big Data is changing the way companies do business by providing unprecedented transparency, new opportunities to experiment, new ways to segment consumers and markets, better ways to make decisions and a fertile environment for innovation.

Saggezza has been at the forefront of Big Data since the beginning.  Our mastery of tools like Apache Hadoop, Cassandra and NoSQL data storage has helped clients to unlock value and create insight from previously impenetrable data sets at a much lower cost than would be possible with traditional tools.

Business Intelligence Services

Business Intelligence workshop - a workshop lasting two or three days at which Saggezza's experts introduce stakeholders to key BI concepts, produce a high-level understanding of the current state of BI at your company and help to set an agenda for future BI efforts.

Business Intelligence Jumpstart - a four-week engagement enabling our clients to quickly implement BI reporting in areas like Sales, Marketing, Service, Contact Center, Workforce, and Supply Chain Analytics.  Saggezza provides services to install software, create initial development deliverables for you to replicate, and provides training to build your internal BI capabilities.  This project delivers on two levels: our experienced team will get you up and running with some actual deliverables, whilst laying the foundations for your internal team to continue to grow your BI reporting.

Business Intelligence Assessment - a fast-paced program to help clients to turn around a struggling BI project.   This exercise usually takes around two weeks to complete, while we interview key stakeholders to assess the current state of the BI effort. We then conduct a gap analysis of the current state against the best practices we have developed from our many client engagements.  The deliverable is a formal report benchmarking your BI efforts, along with recommended corrective actions.

Master Data Management (MDM)

Master Data is the single source of truth across multiple corporate systems.  This seems like a simple concept but implementation can be complex and expensive.  MDM projects need careful analysis and the development of a robust strategy in order to be successful.  Saggezza helps clients to unlock the maximum value of MDM projects at the lowest cost.

MDM Assessment - a short strategy engagement during which we work with stakeholders to understand the goals of the MDM effort, benchmark the current state, create a high-level vision for the future state and conduct a gap analysis to produce a roadmap for  successful implementation of your MDM project.

MDM Strategy - a longer engagement which goes deeper than the MDM Assessment and produces an agile, dynamic strategic blueprint for MDM within your organization.  The deliverables include a multi-disciplinary roadmap and summary documentation for distribution to the wider stakeholders.  The analysis covers key areas of MDM best practice:

• Governance and stewardship
• Policies, procedures, and organizational awareness
• Life cycle and value creation: origination, storage, management, usage, retirement
• Risk management and compliance
• Security, access control, privacy
• Architecture: technologies supporting the data life cycle and integration
• Quality and supporting management methods, metrics, measures, etc.
• Master definition and management: classification, metadata, glossaries, etc.
• Auditing, logging, and reporting

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server - Saggezza has deep experience of implementing InfoSphere to create powerful cost-optimized MDM solutions in challenging client environments.

Data Governance (DG)

Data Governance is a quality control discipline for managing, using, improving and protecting organizational information.  Effective data governance enhances the quality, availability, integrity and protection of a company's data by fostering cross-organizational collaboration and structured policy-making.  Saggezza helps companies to develop data governance strategies which unlock the value in corporate data and reduce the cost of managing it.

Data Governance Assessment - Saggezza data governance experts work with key stakeholders to assess the current state of data governance in the organization, answering questions like What data do we have?  How much is our data worth?  What risks affect our data?  How can we extract maximum value from our data whilst keeping it secure and up to date?  This exercise produces a high-level strategy document which can be used to plan future data projects in the organization.